The world seems to have taken notice. "Is Boris Johnson just an eccentric buffoon?" muses one Australian Reddit user (who gets some pretty good responses). The answer is no, he is not just an eccentric buffoon. He's also an incredibly smart tactical politician.

Johnson's charismatic populism has made him a great ambassador for both the games and the United Kingdom, and there's — yet again — a growing theory that he has his sights set on becoming a UK Conservative Prime Minister.

A new poll published in the Sun today suggests that if the Conservatives had Boris as a leader rather than David Cameron they drop to just one point behind opposition party Labour (under Cameron the Conservatives are 6 points behind).